cloud shadows
chase
themselves
across suburban
parkland
where once
they escorted kangaroo
grazing
on ample grasses
altered only when
herd surprise
invited stampede
but now
the winds detour
and those clouds
suffocate double-glazed modernity

relentlessly

First published in tamba, Issue 67, 2020 by Goulburn Valley Writers, Pat Patt editor
‘heightened state’
Goulburn Valley Writers' Group Inc. (gvwritersgroup.com)